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Worth Reading: Trevor Pott's editorial on NSA PRISM and its real ramifications
IainB:
^^ How depressing.
IainB:
I just came across this link in one of my RSS feeds. I think the link is to a segment of a longer speech made in 2007.
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Transcript:
Published on 6 Jun 2013
Excerpt from President Obama's speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center in August 2007.
This Administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand. I will provide our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists without undermining our Constitution and our freedom.
That means no more illegal wire-tapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient. That is not who we are. And it is not what is necessary to defeat the terrorists. The FISA court works. The separation of powers works. Our Constitution works. We will again set an example for the world that the law is not subject to the whims of stubborn rulers, and that justice is not arbitrary.
This Administration acts like violating civil liberties is the way to enhance our security. It is not.
Source clip: - here.
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I find this confuzzling. :tellme:
wraith808:
I find this confuzzling. :tellme:
-IainB (August 02, 2013, 09:30 AM)
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Not really so much. With every politician, you have who he is during the election season, and who he is when elected. With some, that divide isn't so much. But as you get higher on the rungs, the more different those two personas become. It's always been widely known that Presidents campaign towards their base, and administer from the center.
In Obama's case, it's painfully obvious how much outside influence is evident. Maybe not so much as W, but it's definitely obvious that unless he's a total sociopath (and I don't believe he is, before people start chiming in :-\) that he received "The Speech" after he came into office, and he chose to listen and act accordingly.
IainB:
^^ Thanks for the explanation.
Sheesh. I don't know how the electorate cope with such "ambiguity" in an elected President's mandate.
The thing seems to have more twists than an Agatha Christie thriller.
wraith808:
^^ Thanks for the explanation.
Sheesh. I don't know how the electorate cope with such "ambiguity" in an elected President's mandate.
The thing seems to have more twists than an Agatha Christie thriller.
-IainB (August 02, 2013, 12:18 PM)
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Historically, it's been with Hope. A Hope for Change. And the judicious spending of political capital has helped to make the strings less obvious with those that came before.
But with Hope and Change having been key tenets in this electoral cycle... it's pretty depressing.
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